INSTRUCTOR TRAINING GPSTC UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Negligent Retention - ✔✔Failure on your part to take action when you have (or
should have) determined a trainee is unsuitable to continue, or the magnitude of that
trainee's acts demonstrate they are a foreseeable danger
✔✔Causes of Action for Which Instructors May Be Found Liable - ✔✔1.) Negligent
Training
2.) Negligent Entrustment
3.) Negligent Supervision
4.) Negligent Retention
✔✔Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - ✔✔Makes it unlawful for an
employer to discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin
✔✔Disparate Treatment - ✔✔Involves the kind of treatment a trainee receives from
trainers which may differ from the treatment given to other trainees and the only basis
for the different treatment is the person's race, color, religion, sex or national origin
✔✔Disparate Impact - ✔✔Involves the use of training practices which on the surface
appear facially neutral in their treatment of different groups, but will impact more
severely one protected class and cannot be justified by business necessity
✔✔Reducing Classroom Liability - ✔✔1.) Written Procedures
2.) Provide these Written Procedures to All Students
3.) Always Follow an Approved Lesson Plan
4.) Teach and Follow Safe Practices in All Class Activities
5.) Ensure Class Sizes are Reasonable and Instructor/Student Ratios are not Exceeded
6.) Supervision
7.) All Machinery and Equipment Should be Tested on a Regular Basis
8.) Specific Procedures
9.) Activity Areas
10.) Safety Devices
11.) Remove Broken Equipment or Machinery
,12.) Ensure Trainers are Qualified
13.) Ensure Records are Accurate
14.) Keep Course Materials Up-To-Date
✔✔Bloom's Taxonomy - ✔✔Heirachy of steps that must be taken in order to master a
process.
✔✔Taxonomy - ✔✔Classification or structure
✔✔Domain - ✔✔Category
✔✔KAS - ✔✔Knowledge
Attitude
Skills
✔✔Cognitive (Knowledge) - ✔✔Involves the development of intellectual skills.
✔✔Six Categories of the Cognitive Process - ✔✔1.) Knowledge
2.) Comprehension
3.) Application
4.) Analysis
5.) Synthesis
6.) Evaluation
✔✔Affective (Attitude) - ✔✔Refers to how people deal with things emotionally, such as
feelings, motivation, and enthusiasm
✔✔Five Categories of the Affective Process - ✔✔1.) Receiving
2.) Responding
3.) Valuing
4.) Organization
5.) Characterization
✔✔Psychomotor (Skills) - ✔✔Refers to physical movement, coordination and use of
motor skills to accomplish a task
✔✔Five Categories of Psychomotor Process - ✔✔Imitation
Manipulation
Precision
Articulation
Naturalization
, ✔✔VARK - ✔✔Visual Learners
Aurual/Auditory Learners
Reading/Writing
Kinesthetic
✔✔Visual Learners - ✔✔Prefer the use of images to understand information.
✔✔Aural/Auditory Learners - ✔✔Prefer listening and speaking in situations such as
lectures and group discussions.
✔✔Reading/Writing - ✔✔Students with strong reading and writing preferences learn
best through words
✔✔Kinesthetic - ✔✔Kinesthetic learners understand information best by practicing
through hands on experience
✔✔Laws of Learning - ✔✔1.) Law of Readiness
2.) Law of Exercise
3.) Law of Effect
4.) Law of Association
5.) Law of Recency
6.) Law of Intensity
7.) Law of Primacy
✔✔Law of Readiness - ✔✔A person can learn when physically and mentally adjusted
(ready) to receive stimuli (instruction).
✔✔Law of Exercise - ✔✔Stresses the idea that repetition is basic to the development of
adequate responses
✔✔Law of Effect - ✔✔This law involves the emotional reaction of the learner
✔✔Law of Association - ✔✔It is easier to learn by relating new information to similar
information from past experiences
✔✔Law of Recency - ✔✔Things most recently learned are best remembered
✔✔Law of Intensity - ✔✔The more realistic the training, the greater the probability of
learning or improved job performance
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Negligent Retention - ✔✔Failure on your part to take action when you have (or
should have) determined a trainee is unsuitable to continue, or the magnitude of that
trainee's acts demonstrate they are a foreseeable danger
✔✔Causes of Action for Which Instructors May Be Found Liable - ✔✔1.) Negligent
Training
2.) Negligent Entrustment
3.) Negligent Supervision
4.) Negligent Retention
✔✔Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - ✔✔Makes it unlawful for an
employer to discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin
✔✔Disparate Treatment - ✔✔Involves the kind of treatment a trainee receives from
trainers which may differ from the treatment given to other trainees and the only basis
for the different treatment is the person's race, color, religion, sex or national origin
✔✔Disparate Impact - ✔✔Involves the use of training practices which on the surface
appear facially neutral in their treatment of different groups, but will impact more
severely one protected class and cannot be justified by business necessity
✔✔Reducing Classroom Liability - ✔✔1.) Written Procedures
2.) Provide these Written Procedures to All Students
3.) Always Follow an Approved Lesson Plan
4.) Teach and Follow Safe Practices in All Class Activities
5.) Ensure Class Sizes are Reasonable and Instructor/Student Ratios are not Exceeded
6.) Supervision
7.) All Machinery and Equipment Should be Tested on a Regular Basis
8.) Specific Procedures
9.) Activity Areas
10.) Safety Devices
11.) Remove Broken Equipment or Machinery
,12.) Ensure Trainers are Qualified
13.) Ensure Records are Accurate
14.) Keep Course Materials Up-To-Date
✔✔Bloom's Taxonomy - ✔✔Heirachy of steps that must be taken in order to master a
process.
✔✔Taxonomy - ✔✔Classification or structure
✔✔Domain - ✔✔Category
✔✔KAS - ✔✔Knowledge
Attitude
Skills
✔✔Cognitive (Knowledge) - ✔✔Involves the development of intellectual skills.
✔✔Six Categories of the Cognitive Process - ✔✔1.) Knowledge
2.) Comprehension
3.) Application
4.) Analysis
5.) Synthesis
6.) Evaluation
✔✔Affective (Attitude) - ✔✔Refers to how people deal with things emotionally, such as
feelings, motivation, and enthusiasm
✔✔Five Categories of the Affective Process - ✔✔1.) Receiving
2.) Responding
3.) Valuing
4.) Organization
5.) Characterization
✔✔Psychomotor (Skills) - ✔✔Refers to physical movement, coordination and use of
motor skills to accomplish a task
✔✔Five Categories of Psychomotor Process - ✔✔Imitation
Manipulation
Precision
Articulation
Naturalization
, ✔✔VARK - ✔✔Visual Learners
Aurual/Auditory Learners
Reading/Writing
Kinesthetic
✔✔Visual Learners - ✔✔Prefer the use of images to understand information.
✔✔Aural/Auditory Learners - ✔✔Prefer listening and speaking in situations such as
lectures and group discussions.
✔✔Reading/Writing - ✔✔Students with strong reading and writing preferences learn
best through words
✔✔Kinesthetic - ✔✔Kinesthetic learners understand information best by practicing
through hands on experience
✔✔Laws of Learning - ✔✔1.) Law of Readiness
2.) Law of Exercise
3.) Law of Effect
4.) Law of Association
5.) Law of Recency
6.) Law of Intensity
7.) Law of Primacy
✔✔Law of Readiness - ✔✔A person can learn when physically and mentally adjusted
(ready) to receive stimuli (instruction).
✔✔Law of Exercise - ✔✔Stresses the idea that repetition is basic to the development of
adequate responses
✔✔Law of Effect - ✔✔This law involves the emotional reaction of the learner
✔✔Law of Association - ✔✔It is easier to learn by relating new information to similar
information from past experiences
✔✔Law of Recency - ✔✔Things most recently learned are best remembered
✔✔Law of Intensity - ✔✔The more realistic the training, the greater the probability of
learning or improved job performance
